KARACHI: Dacoits on Thursday took a private hospital administration hostage and robbed them of over Rs0.25 million, ARY News reported.
Five robbers barged into the hospital at Federal B Area, took hospital staff hostage, snatched weapons from security guards and heisted more than Rs0.25 from them.
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The hospital staff told the robbers took Rs0.25 million cash from counter and about Rs25,000 from patients, attendants and staff.
They also took CCTV record from admin room.
"They broke lock of the room and took…

FAISALABAD: A police official was martyred while two suspected robbers were shot dead in Faisalabad shootout on Friday night, ARY News reported.
Police said two robbers were busy stealing backup batteries from a mobile phone tower in Mehmoodpur neighborhood.
When they saw a police team approaching them, they opened fire in a bid to escape, a police official said.
In the ensuing exchange of fire, he said, both the outlaws were killed on the spot while an assistant sub-inspect received…

LONDON: A group of robbers crashed through the glass entrance of a department store in England and got away with an ATM placed inside.
In the early hours of January 29, three men smashed the entrance of an Aldi supermarket in Chatteris town, England using what cops believed was a stolen Land Rover Defender. Cambridgeshire Police have released surveillance footage of the daring heist.
Once the glass door was out of the way, the vehicle was rammed again into the cash machine, which then dislodged from its position.
It…

MULTAN: Two suspected robbers were shot dead in a shootout with police personnel in Multan on Tuesday night.
According to the police, the shootout took place within the jurisdiction of Jalalpur Pirwala police station when the robbers opened fire on a police team after it signaled them to stop. When the police personnel retaliated, two armed suspects were killed.
The killed robbers were later identified as Aijaz and Aslam and were wanted in several criminal cases, said the police.
Last month, the police claimed to…

KARACHI: Police claimed to have shot dead two alleged robbers in a shootout within the remits of Site Super Highway police station late Monday night, ARY News reported.
The police said the robbers were busy looting citizens in the area, when the police personnel acting on a tip-off arrived at the spot. The robbers opened fire at policemen. In the retaliatory fire, both the robbers were killed.
The police said they have recovered illegal arms and snatched valuables from their possession.
Meanwhile, the police…

KARACHI: Sindh police claimed to have arrested four 'fake policemen' who were depriving citizens of their valuables by stopping them in the pretext of snap-checking, ARY News reported.
According to details, Gulistan-e-Jauhar police arrested four impostors, fake policemen who, the police said, used to wear police uniform, act as a fake policemen and stop people on roads for snap-checking and then deprived them of cash, mobile phones and other valuables.
Meanwhile, Gulberg police arrested a street criminal in its…

KARACHI: Three persons were shot dead in a gun attack in Karachi's Orangi Town on Monday evening, ARY News reported.
The victims Dildar Hussain, Ghulam Hussain and Mumtaz, were sitting outside Al-Falah Mosque in the jurisdiction of Orangi Town Police Station, when unknown men on motorcycles sprayed them with bullets.
Rescue teams reached the scene and shifted the injured to a hospital for medical attendance where they succumbed to their injuries. The victims died due to profuse bleeding, hospital administration said.…

KARACHI: Robbers snatched the vehicle of a Sindh Assembly member in Defence area of Karachi, ARY News reported on Thursday.
The looters snatched the car, a white Toyota Corolla bearing registration no. GSC-836, from Defence area of the metropolis.
The whereabouts of the vehicle is unknown.
SSP South said that the MPA was not present in the market whereas the driver was going to meat market – located at PNS Shifa Road at Defence Phase-II - to buy household items.
The suspects also thrashed the driver as he tried…